Health insurance utilization and its impact: Observations from the middle-aged and elderly in China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Yu ^a,b   Jiang, Yan ^a   Li, Yang ^a   Wang, Xiaojun ^a   Ma, Chi ^c   Ma, Shuangge ^a,b  

^a RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; REIMBURSEMENT; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INCOME; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84891938762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080978     Document Type: Article

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